1. Name of Program Wordle
2. URL of Program: http://www.wordle.net/
3. URL of Online Tutorial
4. Purpose of the Program
Generate “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence
to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with
different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
5. Ease of Use: Easy
6. Reaction to Program: I like doing word clouds in my foods class. This reminds me of Tagxedo. This is a neat site to get students brainstorming on topics while creating a word cloud.
1. Name of Program WordItOut
2. URL of Program http://worditout.com/
3. URL of Online Tutorial
4. Purpose of the Program
Word cloud generator that gives you control with many custom settings. Free to use and no sign up required. Create from sentences, whole documents, web addresses or tables. Display or remove words and tweak their importance with ease. Choose your own colours, fonts and sizes. Easily embed them on your own website (as big or small as you want)
5. Ease of Use: Good
6. Reaction to Program: Program is similar to Wordle and Tagxedo. It gives you a few more option with colors, fonts, etc. The other nice feature is no need to sign up.
1. Name of Program Floorplanner
2. URL of Program http://floorplanner.com/
3. URL of Online Tutorial
4. Purpose of the Program:Create and share interactive floorplans
5. Ease of Use: Good
6. Reaction to Program: I enjoyed coming across this site. We teach interior design and this would allow students to create floor plans, design rooms, etc. One basic plan is free but the pricing is rather inexpensive.
1. Name of Program Scribbler
2. URL of Program: http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/
3. URL of Online Tutorial
4. Purpose of the Program: Create spectacular line sketches from a simple drawing.
5. Ease of Use: Easy
6. Reaction to Program: I liked this program. It was really simple and easy to use and you don't have to signup. You can save or print your sketches. I could find a way to use this in my classes.
1. Name of Program Glowtext
2. URL of Program http://glowtxt.com/
3. URL of Online Tutorial
4. Purpose of the Program:Glowing text generator.
5. Ease of Use: Easy
6. Reaction to Program: This would be a great program to do fun fonts. Once you have created the font that you would like, it gives you a URL. The tutorial suggested that it would work nicely on Weebly.
1. Name of Program Wordle
2. URL of Program: http://www.wordle.net/
3. URL of Online Tutorial
4. Purpose of the Program
Generate “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence
to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with
different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.
5. Ease of Use: Easy
6. Reaction to Program: I like doing word clouds in my foods class. This reminds me of Tagxedo. This is a neat site to get students brainstorming on topics while creating a word cloud.
1. Name of Program WordItOut
2. URL of Program http://worditout.com/
3. URL of Online Tutorial
4. Purpose of the Program
Word cloud generator that gives you control with many custom settings. Free to use and no sign up required. Create from sentences, whole documents, web addresses or tables. Display or remove words and tweak their importance with ease. Choose your own colours, fonts and sizes. Easily embed them on your own website (as big or small as you want)
5. Ease of Use: Good
6. Reaction to Program: Program is similar to Wordle and Tagxedo. It gives you a few more option with colors, fonts, etc. The other nice feature is no need to sign up.
1. Name of Program Floorplanner
2. URL of Program http://floorplanner.com/
3. URL of Online Tutorial
4. Purpose of the Program:Create and share interactive floorplans
5. Ease of Use: Good
6. Reaction to Program: I enjoyed coming across this site. We teach interior design and this would allow students to create floor plans, design rooms, etc. One basic plan is free but the pricing is rather inexpensive.
1. Name of Program Scribbler
2. URL of Program: http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/
3. URL of Online Tutorial
4. Purpose of the Program: Create spectacular line sketches from a simple drawing.
5. Ease of Use: Easy
6. Reaction to Program: I liked this program. It was really simple and easy to use and you don't have to signup. You can save or print your sketches. I could find a way to use this in my classes.
1. Name of Program Glowtext
2. URL of Program http://glowtxt.com/
3. URL of Online Tutorial
4. Purpose of the Program:Glowing text generator.
5. Ease of Use: Easy
6. Reaction to Program: This would be a great program to do fun fonts. Once you have created the font that you would like, it gives you a URL. The tutorial suggested that it would work nicely on Weebly.